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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 



Fijr. 266. Different metliods of fnsteniiis; live bait on tlie suood liooks of a Pikc-liue. 



reedy shores, but else clear of weeds, so that the hooked 

 fish cannot run the line foul. Though this fishing may 

 be practised all the winter, it succeeds best and is 

 attended with least difficulty early in the season, be- 

 fore tlie ice has attained anv considerable thickness, 



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Fit;. '2,')7. Different forms of triangle-hook for Pike-fisliing under 

 tlie ice with live bait. The liait is attached by inserting the point 

 of tlie hook in the fleshiest part of the back beside the spinal co- 

 Innin and drawiiis; it out in the direction of the head, so tliat, when 

 the bait is left in the water, tlie hook keeps it in a natural position, 

 and the point of the hook is directed biickwards. 



and after some snow has fiillen, to render the ice less 

 transparent and to give the fisherman a foothold. 



Tlie stdnrjkrok (fig. 258), with the stdng (a thick 

 rod) obliquely thrust into the bottom, and with the 

 line wound up, so that the Pike can run to its entire 

 length until the fisherman comes to examine his tackle, 

 may be used not only in summer, but also, with some 

 modificMtion of its setting, in winter. In all seasons 



Fig. 2.58. a and b. the tops of two rods ns used in stiinghrok 

 Msliing (as inucli as should be visible above the water); a, with the 



line wound on a boiv (hazel beet); b, with the line wound on a forked 

 stick (juniper best), c, bait fastened on the hook (see above, fig. 

 256), but also suspended from the line by a fine thread (attached to 

 a pin stuck through its back), so as to keep it in an horizontal posi- 

 tion, d, dead bait suspended in a triangle, where the line (the thick 

 line in the figure) forms one side of the triangle, the hook and the 

 bait form the base, and a fine thread, attached as in c, forms the 

 third side. 



the stdvf/krok is invariablj' set near the edge of the 

 reeds, off rocks, promontories, and holms, in such in- 

 lets as the Pike is supposed to haunt. 



The khoiipkrok (fig. 259). M'ith the rod of the pre- 

 ceding method replaced by a floating Mump (a piece 

 of timber 3 or 4 feet long), one end of which is an- 

 chored witli a stone, the line, woiuid iij) on a hmr, 



Fig. 259. Khivtphrok. 



being suspended from the other end. Used at the same 

 season as the stdii(/krok and at similar spots. 



The pdlkrok (fig. 2G0), with one end of the line 

 anchored by means of a stone but fastened at a dis- 

 tance from this point somewhat less than the depth of 

 the water, I)y means of a running noose, in a notch 

 at the end of a floating pale (a splinter of sjiruce-fir 

 about 3 feet long), so that about a third of the splinter 

 projects above the surface. Employed at the same 

 season and in the same places as the klioiipkrok, to 

 which it has no slight resemblance. 



